gawker

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Noun
  • Yet the car will likely obey speed limits, never get drowsy or drunk and never rubberneck or give in to road rage.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 June 2025
  • Flimflam felt better in the mouth than swindle, and rubberneck was a more agreeable verb than crane.
    Ralph Keyes, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
Noun
  • The international community continues to watch closely as tensions simmer and Iran's spy crisis deepens.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • Oh no, the uncles are mini-golfing in Biloxi and spy Mina with Demetrius.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • This pairing from Wildhorn worked in perfect harmony to keep gaper-gap at bay and airflow going directly from cutouts at the top of the helmet vents into the goggles.
    Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Another man asked if putting up higher barriers in the median might help with the dreaded gaper’s blocks that happen every time there’s an accident.
    Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • Peep Dorothy’s peepers when Wicked: For Good premieres November 21.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 June 2025
  • Suddenly, Riddick's effervescent peepers become their only hope for survival, if he can be bothered to help out.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Illustration by Patricia Bolaños New York, as the best gossips know, is a snoop’s paradise—a nirvana for nosiness, an intermeddler’s Eden.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Walter hacks into the internet and Lottie’s phone while Shauna mopes around, and Misty snoops in Lottie’s pockets and drawers for evidence.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This relatively tiny interloper traveled like a dart through the core of the Bullseye about 50 million years ago, leaving rings in its wake like ripples in a pond.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2025
  • These intestinal interlopers include Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale, which are the leading hookworms worldwide, including in the US.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, his message doesn't get across to everybody, and plenty see Klaatu as an interstellar busybody.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 3 June 2025
  • The first week of June feels restless, as busybody Mars rouses chatty Mercury on June 5.
    Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Linda Tripp, world-famous buttinsky , Dropped a dime on M. Lewinsky.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Rather, the story is set in motion by Kevin O’Neill (Rick Holmes), a private-equity manager and arrogant buttinsky who takes an interest in Cara.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 June 2018
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“Gawker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gawker. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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